Muscular Rabbits Legion: 'No one can escape from the novice village!'

Chapter 67: Chapter 67 Kongzi speaks of benevolence, Mengzi speaks of righteousness [Seek further reading]

The next moment, he discovered an extra character on the carrot in his hand, De!

At first glance, it looked just like a brand label, very conspicuous, and it was actually quite attractive.

“Well, I really need to listen to Elder Mengzi’s advice from now on, to win people over with virtue, heh heh…”

Upon hearing Yi Zheng mention Kongzi and winning people over with virtue, Zi Xing, the know-it-all down below, immediately lifted his head and asked, “What did you say? Has Elder Kongzi said something again? Boss, tell us!”

The other rabbits walking alongside pricked up their ears one after another.

Yi Zheng was suddenly speechless. These guys were frighteningly fanatical about Kongzi.

However, as Yi Zheng had nothing better to do, he might as well chat, “It wasn’t Elder Kongzi who said this, but Elder Mengzi. Now, Mengzi, he’s a disciple of Elder Kongzi’s lineage, but his achievements are second only to Elder Kongzi’s. He and Elder Kongzi are jointly referred to as the Path of Kong-Meng; as the saying goes, Kongzi preaches benevolence, Mengzi preaches righteousness, together forming benevolence and righteousness!”

“Boss, could you explain? I didn’t get it. I don’t know what benevolence is, but whatever Elder Kongzi says must be very reasoning. But what is this righteousness that Mengzi talks about? Is it worthy of Elder Kongzi?”

Before Yi Zheng could explain, Zi Lu, who also acts as the study committee, said, “I know.”

Yi Zheng was instantly overjoyed; thankfully Zi Lu had jumped in because otherwise, he would have had a hard time explaining.

Zi Lu said, “Kongzi speaks of benevolence, ah, what is benevolence? There’s a person on the left and a two on the right, meaning to divide one person into two. This is Elder Kongzi educating us that the highest realm in a fight is to tear people apart with bare hands!”

Yi Zheng started vigorously rubbing his forehead; this know-it-all really lived up to expectations!

Zi Xing then asked, “And what about righteousness?”

Zi Lu answered, “That’s simple. Righteousness is when the head gets knocked into the chest cavity. What Mengzi probably means is, tearing people apart with bare hands is too difficult, and if you can’t do it, then simply smash the opponent’s head into their chest. This is a complementary approach, as well as a battle solution that’s relatively easier to implement. So I think, Mengzi’s stature is acknowledged. Right, boss?”

Yi Zheng chuckled, “Right, right… whatever you say is right…”

Zi Xing said again, “Boss, what did you mean just now by winning people over with virtue?”

Yi Zheng replied, “Winning people over with virtue, it’s… it’s…” Just as Yi Zheng was struggling to explain this one, he suddenly spotted Wen Rou. Wen Rou’s fur hadn’t even grown back yet, but her poser nature remained unchanged; she’d strike a fitness pose every few steps to showcase her muscles, eliciting admiring glances from the large rabbits around her.

Of course, Yi Zheng wasn’t smitten with Wen Rou; rather, while observing the muscle lines on her back, he had a thought and then slapped his thigh, “That’s right! Winning people over with virtue means that Kongzi’s cultivation has reached a terrifying realm where his muscles are different from ours. When everyone’s back muscles bulge, it can form a big character for De! Winning people over with virtue means using De-like muscles to beat the opponent so badly they can’t stand up even with support!”

“Roar!” The group of rabbits got excited, cheering loudly.

Yi Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead; that bout of nonsense had truly exhausted quite a few of his brain cells.

But the benefits were clear. As the Path of Kong-Meng spread, the morale of the rabbit army soared; their eyes were blood-red, as if they couldn’t wait to encounter the enemy and bash their heads into their chests. @@novelbin@@

Some of the guys couldn’t contain the fire of combat within them and yanked out small trees by the roots as they passed, climbed up the larger ones to strip off all the leaves, urinated on ant hills, and even the stray dogs that passed by got a couple of slaps…

Shaking his head, Yi Zheng was truly helpless with these guys and then continued to study his own abilities.

Although he possessed the Carrot Skill as his trump card, who would complain about having too many skills?

Even though the Floating Technique was a good defensive measure, in Yi Zheng’s dictionary, attack was the strongest form of defense, so he wanted to attack, attack, and attack some more!

He boosted the Fire Control Technique straight to Grade C in one go!

Skill Name: Fire Control Technique

Level: First Stage

Skill Grade: C

Skill Introduction: Control flames to burn everything; basic damage: spiritual power * 20 + weapon magic damage * 20, for every additional 1,000 mana invested, the damage increases by 5%. Basic mana consumption 2,000, no cooldown.

The basic attack range within fifty square meters inflicts undiminished damage, and for every additional ten square meters, the attack power drops by 5%.

Leveling up requires 200,000 energy points.

Yi Zheng never expected that after the Fire Control Technique was upgraded to Grade C there would be such a dramatic change: the original phased abilities were completely gone, and it turned into controlling the flames at will. The Attack Power of the flames would increase with the amount of Mana invested, but it would decrease as the area affected expanded.

This setup was logical, realistic, and practical!

Most importantly, this was a skill with no cooldown; as long as the Mana Value could keep up, it could be continuously cast.

However, the terrifying amount of Mana consumption meant that even with Yi Zheng’s 130,000 Mana Value, if he kept attacking one spot, he could only sustain combat for a little over two minutes.

Therefore, although the skill was powerful, the consumption behind it was indeed a bit frightening.

But then, thinking about that terrifying average damage of 26,000 within a fifty-square-meter area, Yi Zheng felt it was all worth it!

And that was not even including weapon damage. If Yi Zheng could get his hands on a weapon usable by monsters, the damage would double instantly!

The key point was that the Fire Control Technique was only at Grade C for now. What if it upgraded to Grade B, or Grade A? What would the effects be then?

Yi Zheng was filled with anticipation.

Of the 230,000 Resentment Value, 211,000 had been spent, leaving 19,000 points remaining.

Eventually, Yi Zheng upgraded his Identification Skill, raising it to Grade D.

Skill Name: Identification Skill

Level: First Stage

Skill Grade: Grade D

Skill Introduction: Can identify part of the information of people, monsters, and items. Can identify all the information of those below one’s own level; for those of the same level, can identify names with a 1% chance of finding out most information; for people, monsters, and items that are within ten levels above one’s self, there is a 0.1% chance of identifying the name and some information.

Cannot identify people, monsters, and items more than ten levels above one’s own.

Consumes 10 Mana points.

No cooldown.

Leveling up requires 100,000 energy points.

Yi Zheng felt a bit disappointed with the Identification Skill upgrade, as the improvements it brought were still limited in usefulness.

The Floating Technique had already reached Grade D and required 100,000 Negative Energy points to upgrade further; however, Yi Zheng only had 8,000 points left, so the upgrade was temporarily impossible.

Yi Zheng then looked at his evil skills, but it seemed they could not be upgraded—at least he couldn’t extract Skill Pearls from these skills, so he gave up on that idea.

But Yi Zheng was satisfied, especially when he looked at the De Character Brand Carrot in his hand, his smile turned even brighter.

“Boss, what good thing are you thinking about? You’re smiling so happily?” Zi Xing asked out of curiosity.

Yi Zheng tapped him with the carrot. “Mind your own business about the ways of the world,” he replied.

Meanwhile, deep within the Goblin Forest north of Vermilion Bird City, in an underground cave.

A strong Giant Goblin dressed in Heavy Armor, donning a crown, sat on a throne constructed from a Giant Stone, while a group of Goblins stood around chuckling as they watched another goblin in the center—wearing only underpants, crying with snot and tears streaming—kneeling down before them.